ImagePerl.com
Posted by Somik | Posted in Featured | Posted on May 15th, 2009
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Have you tried our Image Hosting solution? Its called Image Perl and link to it is ImagePerl.com. It cant get any easier then this. Our advanced image hosting script will fulfill all your needs.
HostImage.co.uk is now ImagePerl.com! However, both domains will remain active, so use anyone you like 
First off,
NO ADULT CONTENT or COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL.
Secondly,
We do not make any profits off it. Its a project to help people who need it. You are more then welcome to use commercial image hosts.
We support ALL image file types, including jpg, jpeg, gif, animated gifs, png, and many more! We support single image upload mode, multi-image upload mode, image uploading from URL, we even support stripping images from website! Just enter the link to the page you want images from and we’ll get all the images on that page that we can see! There is also a zip upload mode where you can just Zip the images together and after uploading, we’ll unzip and put in your folder. There is also image conversion from Text and you can even draw what you want using the flash image maker! When you upload an image, we provide options to:
- Protect your image and only those with direct link to it will be able to see it.
- Create image border to get more attention!
- Create image thumbnail border so that people click it!
- Watermark our copyright on your images.
- Flip it any way you like.
- Change image resolutions for a better fit.
- Rotate image.
- Shear image.
- Apply scan lines to your image.
- Multiple image upload with zip upload.
- Upload images from URLs.
- Create your own gallery.
- Upload images directly to your gallery.
- Set avatar.
- Contact other users.
- Make galleries private and password protect it.
- Thumbnail codes for your forum/site.
- Hotlink code from your forum/site.
Registrations are free of charge. When you register, you get a easier method to manage all your uploaded pictures.
LINK: ImagePerl.com
Why choose us: Because we offer customizations to the site according to user requests.
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USERS REQUESTS:
(You make an request, we fulfill it!)
Customizations:
- Image codes with no link back to ImagePerl for your forum/site.
- Share image with friends link.
- Direct link to your image.
- Multiple upload at 10 files at a time.
- Image link codes available for all your images at once!
- Contact link added to this post.
- When signing up, you will get your password directly.
- Username and password also emailed to you.
- Unlimited space and bandwidth to users.
- No Ads.
- Free services.
- Script customizations by user requests!
- Theme customized to match Somik.org
- PasteBin added so that you can share multiple links with your friends faster!
- Full custom theme for added visual appeal!
- Front page modified.
- Header image changed on to match new domain.
Updates/Bugfixes:
- “Image delete” bug fixed.
- “No image found” bug fixed.
- “Image not found” image bug fixed.
- Thumbnail bug fixed.
- Broken image bug fixed.
- Signup bug fixed.
- “Remove from gallery” bug fixed.
- Delete Image from gallery bug fixed.
- Core script upgraded to handle exceptions.
- Major bugfixes to various scripts as reported by other hosts.
- “Download image” option added on user request.
- Image link simplified to display image upload date.
- Custom error pages added.
Server info for ImagePerl:
- Disk space allocated: 5 GB
- Bandwidth allocated: 50 GB
- Backups: Every 7 days on a same server
- Backups: Every 30 days on different datacenter
- Host type: Paid with 99.9% guaranteed uptime
- Hosted on: Paid Dedicated Server
- Server type: Dual Core2Quad processor with 16GB RAM
- Reliability: High
- Current usage: Over 200 MB of disk space.
- Upgrade option: 10 GB space and 100 GB bandwidth.
- Funding issue: None.
Extra information:
I have change to a dedicated server after upgrades and bugfixes to the script. The server is a paid server, and i dont have any funding issue till now. If i have any in the future, i’ll update.
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To other image hosts:
Take your time to bugfix your scripts before you ask users to host their images. Every DPI 1.1 Final has these bugs. All i am doing is taking the responsibility to fix it. The original owners themselves offer bug fix for $30 as seen here.
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User review:
To all,
Everything is Improved at Hostimage.co.uk.
It is impossible, that you will now have issues regarding, registration, uploading, storage, deleting, categorizing, link codes, storage etc etc. All user requests and related issues have been addressed by Somik, the administrator of Hostimage.co.uk. I am only a normal user here and I have used the new updated Hostimage seamlessly. It is working very well. Everything has been taken care of and Users’s choice has been kept in mind while adopting the new changes.
I LOVE THIS SERVICE. But yet, Some of you have expressed displeasure and skepticism about this service, and a few of you have sent me emails/tweets. Somik, has already mentioned that time, that server work and bug fixing was underway and yea there were some delays because of that. Which service doesn’t? Instead as a result of that, hostimage Service has been improved significantly. Also Wouldn’t you appreciate the fact that the admin has resolved each of your issue immediately in a matter of hours, and replied to each one of you?? If this is not being responsible, then I don’t know what is!
Guys, hostimage has been upgraded and it is very good to use and trust with your images ! Also, as Somik disclaimed, you are free to use any commercial image host, if you don’t Like it. But I am of the firm belief, that even with a commercial image host you won’t the Coolness, Convenience , Customizability of Hostimage.co.uk. Trust me on this!!
(Ignore this service at your own loss)
Site’s appearance : Below Average
Features: Impressive but Needs fine tune
Service Support: Available But inconsistent
Reliability and availability: Good
Visibility: Poor / Nil
Consistency: Present but…
Overall: Wait and watch
(summerized to-do list)
Somik,
Thank you remodeling the navigation Bar. won’t you agree it looks better now?
Automated title adding doesn’t work under single Image tab! In other tab, Once the file is selected, the title field is auto-populated with the file name.
I agree if it really added the title of the file, it would have been godsend, but it doesn’t. Tt smply copies whatever character,number the file to be uploeded carries. and i doubt all of us put a title to our images before upload. if we do, we can choose automatically add titles, but since majority of us do not, it is better to let it turned off and not the service add title to image arbitarily and which do not make sense. Also, title building is only good if there is a search facility to index them by.
Just an opinion.
Neverthless here is somthing you must earnestly consider:
>>>Format support for .BMP,.ico, tif, tiff, tga files. atleast .BMP and .ico formats are as popular as Jpeg and Gif . You could choose to replace wbmp, xbm, xpm, jpe – they aren’t common image fomats.
Dwayne
I am sorry to say this, but thats one option that i cannot change. I’ll be adding the search function in the near future, but till then, it will automatically add the file name as the image name, because once it renames the file, thats the only way to find the original image!
As for format support, .ico is supported, but they will be converted to .jpg format since i am using PHP GD library, which supports image generating of .jpg and .gif. Moreover, .bmp is not a valid format for linux and can only be stored as a file, so its not really an image from linux’s point of view. I am always restricted by GD library of PHP on linux…
Somik,
Could You also Consider The below three things for conevenience sake:
No probelm. Thanks for whatever you do.
1. Is there a way to mov [IMG]BB code link closer to the top or the bottom closer to direct link, than in the middle right now?
2. Is it possible, that the generated link is auto-copied by clicking on it?
3. Is there way to display the number of images (count) for a user’s accounts in each gallery and total?
Kind regards,
Dwayne.
First two are possible. I’ll do it once i figure out how to work with javascript. The third is not because it is already supposed to show count, but for some strange reason, its not working…
EDIT:
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Scratch that! Looks like browsers take copy to clipboard as security threat and block it. Its possible using flash, but its still a very big security threat and gets blocked with every new browser and flash version. I have tryed the off the market ones, and they dont seem to work on Opera and FireFox. Also some plugins of firefox blocks flash clipboards, so thats not an option either. I guess i can only do the first thing for you
Somik,
Thanks for repositioning IMG Link. BUT,
What just happened to the navigation Bar?
Sorry Dwayne, but the nevigation bar seems to have problems with browsers like safari and netscape and even IE! They cant see the right portion of the navigation bar. The public links are “invisible” to then. This might be a design flaw, so i reverted it back to what it was before. I’ll look into it from time to time
As for now, i showed it to various professional designers, and they said it looks pretty organized. So i’ll keep it till i find a better solution for the double side navigation bar
Okay here is what i think.
Honest User Review Unlike Dwayne’s
>>>Site’s appearance : Below Average
The banner and the colour is traditional and lame and bland. The navigation panel options are disorganised. Shows poorly of the site. Make the banner colorful and lively.
On top of it, the featured pics are just too boring with hearts all the times. Either the owner of the site is romantic poet or a heartbreak kid.
The featured pics should either be replaced by random pics from the images gallery, or renewed, or just stopped. As it is waste of space and bandwidth for both the user and the site owner.
>>>Features: Impressive but Needs fine tune
Very promising! I figure most of the changes have been incorporated at User’s Request – the Site’s USP. Has a lot of options, and a very unique Paste bin too. IMG code, Bulk uploading, Bulk Codes, Galleries, Privacy Url strip images etc all taken care of. I agree with Dwayne’s analysis on this . The service is feature laden. BUT, the features needs fine tune. Format support for one. Most of the Image hosting is done on Linux servers, yet they are still able to incorporate BMP, ICO, & TIFF (this the former reveiwer has forgot to mention). This service’s biggest handicap is the inability to accomodate popular formats.Pastebin needs fix too. But over all, The service is promising indeed.
>>>Service Support: Available But inconsistent
Service at Hostimage co.uk site is a one man show. The site is owned and operated By Somik Khan, a web enthusiast. Infact, The site is a sister site to somik.org. Now this is the probelm, being a one man show, the support is inconsistent, and hugely dependent upon what that one person thinks at the end. Like many independently run services, the owner may apply or revert the changes whenever he deems fits. Hence, this is not particularly true of this service, but true for all such one man show services. But i must add, the Site owner’s intention seems noble, and it seems, he has tried to make the service better by heeding to users requests.
>>>Reliability and availability: Good
Unlike other hosts , he/she has been truthful in disclosing the storage and bandwidth allocation. He deserves appreciation on that count. Infact he has reiterated his backup plans at several comments in the discussion forum. There is no reason to doubt, he plans to keep the service online and has a genuine attitude to help. In dire acses, it can be safely asuumed, that the owner will give sufficient backup time for his users to backup their data if the service has to be closed down.
>>>Visibility: Poor / Nil
Sadly the service is not at all to users who are out there looking for a reliable image host. This could be deliberate. It could be that the service owner doesn’t care about the number of users to the service. In his own words, this service is a ‘need it-use it basis’. Those who want it, can use it, and if someone does not, it is alright. This service is meant for people who need it. The owner himself seems to have an experience of looking for a relaioble image host himself, he couldn’t find it, hence he decided to build his own. And hence Hostimage was born. If site owner needs more visibilty, he needs to post his service link at image hosting discussion threads. Google Imaeg hosting, and advertise at blogs and forums. The only reason we are here is because of dwayne’s reco. But here’s the catch, if there are not much members, the service owner will find it easy to stop the service anytime than if there are many service.
>>>Consistency: Present but…
I have touched upon this aspect upon. The owner has brought changes many. But reading the discussion board comments, my only fear is that the owner could apply the changes initially, and then later remove them without user’s consent. Don’t know, but the service seems good, but yet it lacks a sense of consistency. The hwole sense, that users could switch to this service,a nd one fine day find, one of the favourite options missing or altered. Till now, the whole place seems geared up nice and cool, but i doubt, the admin would play with the choices here and there, remove them or alter them , because ‘ he’ thinks it is right, it is ‘his’ service. Such a approach would creep in neverthless, and that is the time, it will give the users the biggest heartache. The whole thing should be humane to be consistent. Once you throw open any service public, it become open to users, most of them innocent. Ofcourse , the owner has the power over his site, but he also has responsibilty towards his users. Well, nothing ahs happened yet, but i fear options and features may soon start disappearing or altered, that may be bad.
>>>Overall: Wait and watch
Most of us have registered here owing to dwayne. we have booked our usernames and accounts. But i wonder how many have started actally to uplaod items.?? I would wait and watch, as the service needs to stabilise, and more be consensus based. Cool-cute-convenient-customised but also Consistent should be the aim, and motto. I wish the owner Somik khan, and service all my best regards.
>>>Note to Dwayne:
Hey Budd, i wonder if you were paid to write a user comments like that one highligted at hostimage’s discussion board. . Lol. or you are been renumerated for sharing link with us. Frankly, unlike your previous reco yopmail (which is very good), this one seems too early and too fast. Still don’t see why you would forego your 8 months paid imageshack account for this service. Don’t get me wrong, it is good, but it is too early to recommend. But after you wrote your reco, you yourself seems to have many things wanting with the service. Then why?
Thank you for your comment. I am glad that you could explain it to such great detail! Now let me try to address some of the issues you have pointed out.
The banner looks as it does since, as you have said, HostImage.co.uk is a sister site to Somik.org. Being so, they must look similar, so i used that banner. In time, i do plan to change it to a more colourfull one. I am designing one that would suite the site perfectly
Well, i guess since noone likes the featured pictures, i’ll use that as ad space
Format support is only possible if the uploaded images are stored as files (or the server is windows server/has windows counterpart). It seems PHP GD library refuges to convert .bmp or .ttf images… As for the paste bin, i m not sure what it is supposed to do or how it should be used. You might say i just “pasted” it in place
Sorry, but the only time i reveted back was the navigation bar, and that too cause it was not showing up on some browsers! As for being one man service, i am more then capable of doing that
And i always have the option to fall back to my friends 
If u see, i myself upload pictures there. So does my GF, and i have more then one option to switch server in case of an emergency. Since it does not cost me to put the site up, i dont see why it should go down!
As for the Visibility, yea, it was deliberate. The script required bugfixing, so i could not let too many users use the site when i bugfix it! Moreover, i will also be switching HostImage to my largest option, the 1,000GB server soon. After that, i’ll advertise it on forums and social networks
Actually as i have said before, due to desig flaw, the navigation bar was not visible to some users. Thats why i reverted it back. Other then that, i would not change anything back to the way they were. Afterall, i only changed it cause “we” agreed that it looked better this way! And when i say “we”, i mean me and my GF. HostImage is owned by my GF, and i just work there
Dont worry, she likes the changes too, and before i respond to any user request, we debate to see which option is better 
As for consistency, i think HostImage will be reaching that marker soon. Just a few design modifications (as you have said, we need a new banner) and i can start advertising HostImage on different forums and blogs and sites
I am sorry you had to come here and write up a review, but user reviews is that makes a site better and user friendly
@Dwayne: dont worry, i wont let u down. HostImage will be better then ImageShack for sure!
Hello Somik,
Few clarifications:
>>Review
My above review was written couple of days back at Dwayne’s Webportal. It was in response to your service. He insisted that I share it with the hostimage webmasters. Frankly I wasn’t expecting it to be published, as some users reported that their negative comments were not. Mine include the negative too. To tell you the truth we wouldn’t have known about hostimage if not for Dwayne post at Reco section. I to be honest feel, there are a couple of other better DPI1.1 based service out there. Now lets look at some real practical aspects of your response to my post.
>>> Banner “HostImage.co.uk is a sister site to Somik.org. Being so, they must look similar”
Nooooo. They ought to have a personality of their own, with underlying subtle features (fonts, border etc) of similarities between them
>>”Well, i guess since noone likes the featured pictures, i’ll use that as ad space”
That is wise, but what happened to the ad-free service concept? Will that change? See this is what I mean by consistency! Using the space for AD is a great Idea actually, but users wouldn’t have known until you responded to my post. It seems that the whole thing is not planned well, and surprises can spring up anytime.
>>> Navigation Bar “Sorry, but the only time i reveted back was the navigation bar”
. The designers you consulted should have told you how to incorporate the design with the browsers.
Design doesn’t mean the visual appeal. It is ironical that you should say –“As for now, i showed it to various professional designers, and they said it looks pretty organized” to Dwayne who himself is web designer Lol! Well, do they use hostimage for their purposes? Its is users convenience that counts no ? Design is not only visual, it is usage. Design should be intuitive, and easy for the eyes, and cursor navigation and make sense where the objects are placed. It shouldn’t be placing spoons in the garage, or toilet paper in the bedroom. It should make sense. Looking at what was suggested before, the present is I must say, inconvenient and unprofessional. Why should you take my word? I Am a webmaster too
>>> Ownership “And when i say “we”, i mean me and my GF. HostImage is owned by my GF, and I just work there”
Lol Silly it may sound, but won’t you concur it is a possibility? Talking practically. All Respects and Credits to you both. When I said ‘we’ or consensus, I didn’t mean You and the owner of the site, with whom your relationship is Emotional. I meant you and the users of your service, with whom; your relationship is professional and work. As clients of your service, you should be able to debate with them. That is what I meant.
What happens if you breakup, and your GF fires you!
I appreciate, your Clarifications. That is what responsible webmaster do. . I agree with the rest of what you said. No fortress is built in a day, but we should be careful on what we lay the foundation on. Hostimage may take on the biggies in the business someday, but for now it has a long way to go. Goodluck. All I can tell you is that it would take time, but just keep digging till you strike gold
. My this,post is in that regard. Best Wishes and regards to the members of Hostimage team. 
I was using off the shelf DPI 1.1f before, and encountered those bugs. Thats why i fixed. DPI sites being better then HostImage is zero possibility, as the script itself has too many problems. I have fixed those problems myself. I highly doubt anyone else would do that too! As for the negative comments, as you can see, i published ALL comments. Only those by other image hosting sites (advertisemnt) were deleted.
Well, yea, i will be working on the banner. I am going for a really colourful design for banner, which will also be reflected in the background
And by Ad space, i meant feature space for HostImage, letting you know whats up with HostImage and what you can use it for. I did not mean ads as in regular ads, cause those, i hate!
As for navigation bar, i’ll look into it. No promises
As for ownership, i ment that HostImage was something i made for her, which she agreed to be shared with the world. Once a site is public, it does not have any proper owner, but its still controled by someone! Look at Facebook. Most people liked the older design more, but did they even consider? No. As for HostImage, we listen to what people say, we consider, and change accordingly, and till this day, did everything in our power to give what users want! As for me and my gf, dont worry about us. HostImage stays up none the less.
Thanks for your well wishes
Our goal is to make the net ad free, and HostImage is a small step forward 
Hey all hi somik! My two cents: I think the previous navigatioon option bar was btter, it was more arranged i feel. Infact it worked well both on my lappie(mac) and desktop (vista Ie7).that atuomatic copy idea is a good one when click the genrated link. sometime we instead of copy, paste the previous link on the generated link. yes here you can paste one link over the other genarted link. check it out at the link generation page!!! i think it is bug. about pastebin – like we shre images, tinypaste allows one to share TEXT all over the worl internatinaly. tinypaste also includes image paste. But text mainly can be downlaod likns like rapidhsare, poem etc which one can share with other, without having a forum a blog or a website. see this example
http://tinypaste.com/pre.php?id=0a145d5
Have a gooday!
HostImage PasteBin is powered by TinyPaste. So you can use the generated link on tinypaste as well! Thats how i set it up, so instread of using my database, it will share the links with tinypaste’s database.
What does it mean? Well, take your link for example!
http://tinypaste.com/pre.php?id=0a145d5 is same as http://tinypaste.com/0a145d5, which is same as http://hostimage.co.uk/link-0a145d5
The code in interest is 0a145d5. You can use it on TinyPaste AND on HostImage! Is that what you ment?
to Robz -yea, i also fear what happen if your GF break with you
. You can GF can write here her views, i think. it better as she is the actual owner
We both are Muslims, so breakup is not legal by our religion. Moreover, we are due to be engaged and married. So as i have said before, do not worry about it. I don’t understand why you guys would think HostImage would go down…
Well, i guess you are worried cause i do not profit from the site. If you all agree, i don’t mind putting ads on the site, if “that” what makes you feel safer with HostImage! So tell me, what you guys prefer…?
Hi Somik and your GF
I write from my college lab. So i quickly want to say THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP TO US. You and Your GF are very good actually. You are very nice, to answer every question. I like your attitude. Go ahead Bro, i am fully with you.
Sorry if my previous comment disturbed u. I am stupid sometimes. Sorry 
That paste bin is very very good. But only probelm when i add link to it, it shows “” at the end. tHAT is the only problem 
. I request other users to say also, if they like pastebin or not. please say and supprot this idea everybody. I wait for your new Banner very much. Thank you sir.
LOL! I was working on it. Not sure on the design… In short, it needs a lot of work! As for the pastebin, you want me to display the html in a box like pastebin? That is a security risk so i avoided that. Anyone can hide a iframe and infect your pc. We dont want that, do we?
SOMIK & HOSTIMAGE ROCKS!
I mean IT SHOWING br. within brackets
Yea, that would be cause displaying open html is a security issue, and some user can just hide a iframe and infect your pc with virus!